Subjects Were Arrested for Calling for Release of Detained Members of Civic Group

Three Chinese anticorruption activists became the latest victims of the Communist Party's crackdown on dissent after they were handed harsh prison sentences on Thursday.

The trio—Liu Ping, Wei Zhongping and Li Sihua—were arrested last year after they photographed themselves outside Ms. Liu's apartment holding a banner that called on the government to release detained members of a civic group called the New Citizens Movement that...